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Climate Change ·

How About a ‘Not-So-Fast’ Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a potentially historic trade agreement being aggressively pursued by the Obama administration, represents a cornerstone in its strategic pivot to Asia. If ratified by all 12 Pacific Rim countries currently engaged in the negotiations, it would create the largest free-trade zone in the world, accounting for some 40% of global GDP and a third of global…

John Fullerton·
December 19, 2014 11:30 am·
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Capitalism ·

MONEYBALL: Reinventing the Game of Capitalism Using a New Scientific Model

We are pleased to introduce this week’s guest blogger, Dr. Sally Goerner, who is joining Capital Institute as a Science Advisor. There is an epidemic failure within the game to understand what is really going on. And this leads those who run major league teams to misjudge their players and mismanage their teams… Baseball thinking is medieval. They are…

Sally Goerner·
November 21, 2014 3:29 pm·
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Divestment ·

The Club of Rome’s Next Act

The Club of Rome was founded in 1968 but really came into the public eye with the publication of Limits to Growth in 1972. The controversial book, which sold 12 million copies in 37 languages, first called attention to the systemic limitations of the exponential expansion of the human population and the related material inputs and waste outputs of its…

John Fullerton·
October 30, 2014 12:47 pm·
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Carbon ·

The Courage to Lead

This post previously ran on the Huffington Post as part of the “Plan B for Business” series to help articulate a Plan B for Business. Henrik O. Madsen joined Norway’s DNV, the world’s leading ship and offshore classification company, in 1982. Thirty-two years later, as Group CEO of the recently merged DNV GL, now a Euro 2.5 billion global enterprise, Henrik made…

John Fullerton·
September 25, 2014 2:00 pm·
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Carbon Bubble ·

Capital Institute’s “Dog Days of Summer” Reading List

Are you looking for summer reading recommendations? We humbly suggest looking back on these recent posts from John Fullerton’s Future of Finance blog – we’re calling them our “greatest hits” based on how many visits, comments and syndications they received. They are all rooted in our core belief that finance is inextricably linked to the environmental and social crises we…

designburd·
August 15, 2014 11:20 pm·
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Ecological Overshoot ·

John Lennon Said It Best: “Living is Easy with Eyes Closed”

I was floored by this Saturday’s New York Times article, “Seeing a Supersize Yacht as a Job Engine, Not a Self-Indulgence.” I was amazed not only by how the subject of the article, Mr. Jones, rationalized his extraordinary consumption habits, but also by the mere fact that the article was published. Mr. Jones of St. Louis, we learn, is living…

designburd·
July 30, 2014 11:28 pm·
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Capitalism ·

The Central Contradiction of Capitalism that Piketty Overlooked

It is instructive to observe the reaction to the Piketty phenomenon — a 700-page treatise on political economy that became an overnight Amazon bestseller deserving, according to Larry Summers, of a Nobel Prize. It is similarly instructive to note the spectacle of the viral Russell Brand interview with theBBC’s Jeremy Paxman in which Brand pretty much shreds Paxman and calls for revolution. I can’t claim to have…

John Fullerton·
May 21, 2014 3:07 pm·
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Financial Crisis ·

High-Frequency Trading is a Blight on Markets. Tobin Tax Can Help.

This blog post previously ran in The Guardian’s Business section. A tax on financial transactions can calm the frenzy of speculation fuelled by computer-driven algorithms The dark side of the world of algorithmic trading in financial markets has twice been in the spotlight this week. First was the release of Michael Lewis’ explosive new book, Flash Boys: Cracking the Money…

John Fullerton·
April 4, 2014 12:01 pm·
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Future of Finance ·

Exclusive Sneak Peek at “Limits to Investment”

Perhaps the most important book missing from the bookshelves of most financiers is Limits to Growth, written in 1972 under the auspices of the Club of Rome. Demonized as neo-Malthusian alarmism when it came out, the book has since sold 12 million copies, been updated three times, each validating the original message, and it

John Fullerton·
March 21, 2014 12:51 pm·
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Financial Reform ·

Can We Escape Bank Regulation by Lawsuit?

When I worked at JPMorgan in the 80s and 90s, even in the context of deregulation, the concept of “self-regulation” in the financial industry was discussed with a straight face. Last week, Better Markets, a sophisticated civil society non-profit organization, run by former Skadden attorney Dennis Kelleher and committed to protecting the public interest in the

John Fullerton·
February 10, 2014 12:17 pm·
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Climate Change ·

Transcending the Tension between Climate Change and Inequality

This year’s gathering of the World Economic Forum at Davos was kicked off with the reading of a letter from Pope Francis, which ends: “I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth and not ruled by it.” One can almost feel the squirming. I recently participated in a roundtable among leading thinkers, activists, and social entrepreneurs on…

John Fullerton·
January 28, 2014 7:09 pm·
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Future of Finance ·

Startled by the Clarity of Regeneration

Several years ago, my friend and Capital Institute Advisor Simon Rich introduced a group of us to the hauntingly poetic wisdom of T.S. Eliot: We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

John Fullerton·
December 16, 2013 6:22 pm·
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Divestment ·

Harvard and Brown Fail Moral Leadership Exam

At a time when institutions of business and government continue to fail society, two of our leading academic institutions missed the opportunity to provide essential moral leadership on the most pressing challenge ever faced in the history of human civilization. Harvard President Drew Faust issued her October statement

John Fullerton·
November 19, 2013 4:35 pm·
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Evergreen Direct Investing ·

6 Reasons Why Stock Markets Are No Longer Fit For Purpose

Another version of this post ran earlier today on The Guardian’s Sustainable Business Blog. 6 Reasons Why Stock Markets Are No Longer Fit For Purpose:

John Fullerton·
October 21, 2013 2:02 pm·
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Financial Reform ·

Are We Not All Jasmines Now?

What is it about a Woody Allen film that leaves us always with a discomforting feeling of identification with its most abysmal character? This is certainly true with his latest film “Blue Jasmine,” which initially disappointed me, Kate Blanchett’s hauntingly brilliant performance notwithstanding. But given a little more time and reflection, its deeply disquieting meaning

John Fullerton·
August 20, 2013 3:37 pm·
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